Cultural Awareness

Vision: For our staff, students and graduates to be highly regarded as ethical and self-reliant contributors to more prosperous,inclusive and sustainable communities.

One of the four ECU Values: Respect: valuing individual differences and diversity.

If there isn't a link for book titles, just copy and paste the title into the ECU Worldsearch box and follow the prompts to link to the eBook or check for print copies on the shelf. Similarly, with journal titles or video titles, just copy and paste the title into the ECU Worldsearch box. We're in the process of adding links to resources in the guide.

Australia's Population

Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011.
This publication brings together statistics on international migration into and out of Australia, interstate migration within Australia and information on overseas-born residents of Australia. Australia's migration is described in the context of the Government's migration program and in comparison with international migration experienced by other countries.
Australia's Diverse Population: At 30 June 2010, data on the estimated resident population of Australia (22.3 million people) revealed that 27% of the population was born overseas (6.0 million people).

Websites

About this site: To celebrate its 80th birthday, the ABC created 80 Days That Changed Our Lives to showcase audio visual treasures from the ABC's 80-year-old archives.
Large or small, a single day or months and years, moments of high drama or a gradual shift in attitude, the 80 events featured on this site were documented by the ABC because they made an impact at the time. Looking back at these moments, it's easy to see how certain events mark changes in the way Australians have lived and thought about the world and their place in it.

ANZAC Remembered.

About Anzac Remembered (from Monash University, Arts):
Australia and New Zealand are fast approaching the centenary of Anzac Day, a day widely considered by many as both countries’ truly national days. Despite its centrality in our foundational national mythologies and despite the widespread popular observance of the day itself, a history of Anzac Day is yet to be written.

Project Partners:
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA)
Shrine of Remembrance (Victoria)
Legacy
National Archives
National Museum of Australia
King's College London
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Historial de la Grande Guerre

Book summary: In this examination of the Australian debate on citizenship tests in its historical and international context, linguists, lawyers and historians, political theorists and philosophers draw out themes of identity and cultural belonging underlying the political rhetoric of testing new citizens' knowledge of the language and culture of a nation. Divided into three parts, From Migrant to Citizen explores the historical background which Australian citizenship testing shares with other nations of the British colonies. Provides cross-national perspectives on citizenship by examining the proliferation of new tests for citizenship in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and in Australia. Discusses philosophical implications and popular attitudes towards the new testing regimes by discussing debates about identity, values and nation and the implications for Australia and for the wider international community.